The UK has repeated its offer to help Egypt with military advice in its military campaign against Islamist militants in Sinai, London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported Monday.
The paper said Armed Forces Chief of Staff Sidqy Sobhy met with Lieutenant General Simon Vincent Mayall, Middle East adviser at the UK defense ministry, to discuss military cooperation between the two sides.
In the talks, Mayall said Britain could help Egypt with military advice in its “battle against gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula,” according to the paper.
Egypt deployed aircraft and tanks in Sinai for the first time since the 1973 war with Israel to pursue Islamist militants blamed for killing 16 border guards in an attack on 5 August.
Last week, the British newspaper The Guardian reported that UK Prime Minister David Cameron, during his first meeting with President Mohamed Morsy in New York, offered to help Egypt with advice on how to steer Bedouin tribes in Sinai away from smuggling.
